The reason why "diaspora poet" has become a denigrating term is not because people are afraid of the hard hitting truths about orientalism or art. It's because these poets, in their search for identity, end up approaching their heritage through an orientalised lens themselves.

yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

Put the arts back in schools and never let them leave again. Because now I understand how STEM only schools have not led to Innovation or critical thinking skills. Disinformation is prospering as a result

At scale, even edge cases become common.

if everyone hates you it's time to sleep, if you hate everyone it's time to eat, and if you hate yourself it's time to shower !!

In any cause the undecided are who you have to convince. So if you actually care about the cause, you can't afford the luxury of despising them, regardless of how good it might make you feel.

It’s a characteristic of big tech workers who have been raised on performative activities for promotions to focus on output (I did a lot of hard work) but not the outcomes (the resulting product was terrible).

this is a symptom of a larger unwillingness to experience art without first being certain that you’ll like it. you see it in trope tags, movie trailers that spoil the whole movie, microgenres, algorithmic playlists, you get exactly what you want every time without ever exploring.

What I think is a mistake is to inconvenience the public merely for the sake of inconveniencing them. If a big protest incidentally blocks traffic, that's ok. But a small number of people blocking traffic *in order to* inconvenience the public is a tactical error.